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Winter Casts Her Wondrous Spell

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)

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Winter casts her wondrous spell.
Snowflakes falling o’er the dell.
Children hop and skip to tell.
The church padre at the knell.
That winter asks us not to pell.
Not to hurry for spring’s bell.

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The special beauty and meaning of the winter season for children and adults as well.

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Written on January 16, 2024

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 16, 2024

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Scheme AAAAAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 197
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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